The deported individuals, including 12 with criminal records and 9 undocumented, have returned to a country plagued by gang violence and economic decline.
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Twenty-one Haitian immigrants, including 12 with criminal records, were deported from the United States on Feb. 4. Initially detained during the Biden administration, they return to a country grappling with gang violence and a prolonged economic downturn.
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti received its first group of deportees under the Trump administration on Tuesday, Feb. 4. A total of 21 individuals, including 12 convicted criminals from prisons and nine undocumented, landed at Cap-Haïtien International Airport. The deportees, who had already been processed under the Biden administration, were received by the National Office of Migration (ONM) and the Haitian National Police.
According to Kerlande Desauguste, the ONM’s regional head, the office provided food, water and a sum of 5,000 gourdes, around $40, to help each person travel back to their homes from the migration office at the airport.
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